Valerie A. Kivelson

Name: Valerie A. Kivelson

Title(s):

• Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, History
• Professor, History

Contact Information: 734.763.2049 , vkivelso@umich.edu

Website: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/history/facstaff/facultydetail.asp?ID=83

International Institute Affiliation(s):

• CREES
• CES-EUC
• CICS

Department Affiliation(s):

• History

Education Background: B.A., History, Harvard University, 1980; M.A., Russian Language and Literature, San Francisco State University, 1982; M.A., Russian History, Stanford University, 1983; Ph.D., Russian History, Stanford University, 1988

World Area(s) of Study/Interest:

• Russian and East European Studies
• European Studies

Related Countries:

• Russia
• Soviet Union

Research/Teaching Specialization: Early modern Russia, political culture, witchcraft, cartography, empire, serfdom

Area/Int'l Course(s) Taught: Imperial Russia; 18th Century Russia; Russia to Peter the Great; Russian Orthodoxy; Witchcraft: Russian and Europe 1450-1750; Autocracy and Dictatorship in Russian and the Soviet Union; Empire: Russia and Soviet Union 1450-2004

Publications:

• Picturing Russia: Explorations in Visual Culture. 2007. (Edited Book)
• "Culture and Politics, or the Curious Absence of Muscovite State Building in Current American Historical Writing". 2005. (Refereed Journal Article)
• Orthodox Russia: Belief and Practice under the Tsars. 2003. (Edited Book)
• "Male Witches and Gendered Categories in Seventeenth-Century Russia". 2003. (Refereed Journal Article)
• "On Words, Sources, and Historical Method: Which Truth about Muscovy?". 2002. (Refereed Journal Article)
• "'Muscovite Citizenship': Rights without Freedom". 2002. (Refereed Journal Article)
• "Cartography, Autocracy and State Powerlessness: The Uses of Maps in Early Modern Russia". 1999. (Refereed Journal Article)
• "The Souls of the Righteous in a Bright Place: Landscape and Orthodoxy in Seventeenth-Century Russian Maps". 1999. (Refereed Journal Article)
• Autocracy in the Provinces: Muscovite Political Culture and the Provincial Gentry in the Seventeenth-Century. 1997. (Authored Book)